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University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 51
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER?, 1970
BYU game boycott pushed
By CATHEJEAN McGILLIN
The Black Students’ Union has gained the support of the ASSC in its attempt to have Friday night’s basketball game against Brigham Young University cancelled. It seems, however, that despite their joint effort the game will be played as scheduled.
Sam Hurst, ASSC president. Henry Blackburn, the chairman of the BSU and Tommy Brown, BSU minister of information, met with President John Hubbard late yesterday to discuss the possibility of cancelling the game.
According to Blackburn. Hubbard's main concern was how much embarrassment would come to the university should the game not be played. Blackburn added that the president said had he been informed earlier of the feelings of the BSU. it might have been possible to take action.
“All this school ever thinks about is money and how much it would be embarrassed,” Blackburn said. “USC has never really taken a lead in social con-
cerns. We want the game cancelled and all relations with BYU severed until it changes it policies toward blacks.”
Hubbard refused to comment, pending further investigation by the administration into the matter.
Hurst said that Hubbard stated USC. had a contract to fulfill and that it was too late to make a change. Hurst added that Hubbard was sure that no black athlete or white player who refused to play in Friday’s game would be reprimanded in the future.
“Athletics is an area of much concern to the BSU and to the ASSC.” Hurst said. “Very few athletes ever graduate and very few compile any academic record at all.
“We recognize as well as anyone that out timing in this matter is not the best,” he continued, “but timing is dictated by when we get the pulse and when we are able to act."
According to Hurst, USC has been asked to assert its position on a matter
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of social concern and to follow the example set by other institutions.
“USC would not be the only school taking a social stand,” he said. “Stanford and San Jose have already taken action. We feel their actions represent a healthy trend and all we want USC to do is to follow sheepishly behind them.”
As an outgrowth of the demands made yesterday by the BSU that all athletic contests and other activities between USC and BYU be cancelled until BYU changes its policy toward blacks, the ASSC passed a resolution by a 12-1-1 vote stating:
“1. That the ASSC Executive Council calls upon the administration of this university to publicly sever irreparably any and all contacts with Brigham Young University, beginning with the basketball game scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, 1970 . . . Should they fail to do this...
“2. That the ASSC Executive Council
asks the members of the Trojan basketball team to refuse to play against Brigham Young and thereby demonstrate that racism is intolerable to humanity.
“3. Be it further resolved that the ASSC Executive Council asks all USC students to attend the game and demonstrate their outrage and contempt for
racism.”
Blackburn said the BSU plans to contact black athletes requesting that they boycott Friday night's game. In addition, his group plans to contact community organizations.
When asked why the BSU did not file a complaint last year when the two schools were scheduled to compete he said:
“One reason is the BSU is under new leadership and second, we couldn't do anything about our team going away. The fact that now they are on home turf and BYU is coming here, is a basis for action.”
Photo bv Mike Parfit
CAMPUS POLICE CHECK IDENTITY OF CHICANO STUDENTS
Jesus Melendez. Rudy Diaz and Genaro Diaz show cards in front of propaganda-covered building
GOVERNANCE PROPOSAL
ASSC asks for revisions
By PETER WONG
The ASSC Executive Council unanimously approved several major suggested revisions for the proposal on university governance at its meeting yesterday.
Council members listened to recommendations prepared by a subcommittee under the chairmanship of Stan DiOrio. graduate representative.
DiOrio and his committee—Steve Goldfisher, Bill Hesse. Jim Lacy and Tom Levyn—had worked on the report for over a month.
The report will now go to the ad hoc committee on university governance, headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and the Summer Session. That group will work the suggestions into the final document before ratification.
Earlier, Hadley's group received the suggestions of the two other major groups—the University Senate, representing the faculty, and the Council of Deans.
DiOrio s committee recommended that student representation on the proposed University Council. the major new governing body in the Articles of Governance, be increased to seven members of the 15-member council. The faculty would then have five representatives and the deans three.
Under the original plan, each of the groups would have five representatives on the council.
“Since the decisions of this council would have far greater effect on students than on faculty and deans, it should be reasonable that students have more say on the council, " DiOrio said.
Also, the committee recommended that council members serve one-year terms, instead of the two-year overlapping terms in the original proposal.
Another major change would give the University Council a two-thirds majority override power over the veto of the president. Previously,
if the president rejected a council recommendation within 30 days, the council could do nothing about it.
“This change would give some real power to the council, for if it could only recommend policies and do nothing else, it would be useless,” DiOrio said.
Also, the subcommittee said the council should have broader powers in the conduct of its business:
“The University Council as the prime instrument of university governance shall have the power to make any recommendation necessary to fulfill its functions.”
A new University Court, which would have jurisdiction over 1) disputes concerning the governance structure, and 2) the rights of all members of the university community, would be created under the ASSC proposals.
“In the past we’ve had no real procedure for grievances if one large group, the student body for example, were hurt by a university policy,” DiOrio said. “The University Court would be an impartial group which would decide the case.”
The positions of chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary on university committees and the University Council would rotate among students, faculty and deans every four months.
“This provides training and leadership experience for all those involved,” DiOrio said. “The shifting of officers will certainly not hinder the effective operation of the committees since there will not be any net loss in experience of the committees.”
The ASSC proposals would still allow each group to negotiate with the president directly.
Also, one member of each group would sit at all sessions of the Board of Trustees as voting members and resource persons. Trustees’ meetings are now closed.
— University backs HI anti-union drive
By MIKE PARFIT
A pair of heated encounters between two Chicano students, a university employee and the campus police have stirred up controversy over a drive to unionize custodians and groundsmen.
The two students, who clashed with an assistant custodian supervisor both Monday night and Tuesday morning at the site of an antiunion demonstration, announced that a meeting will be held today to discuss the situation. The meeting, sponsored by MECHA, a campus Chicano organization, will take place at noon in the Student Activities Center.
The primary issue raised will be the policy of the university in actively campaigning against unionization while not allowing union representatives on-campus access to campus employees. The two students, Jesus Melendez, a third year law student and member of the national board of directors of La Raza National Law Students, and Genary Diaz, a co-chairman of MECHA, also indicated that the meeting would include discussion on tactics used by the university in preventing the union from entering the campus.
The union, Local 399 of the Service & Hosptial Employes Union, AFL-CIO. has been working to unionize the custodians and groundsmen several weeks. An election to determine whether or not it will win the right to represent the 250 employees will be held Friday from 5 to 7 a.m.
In contrast to several other area universities such as UCLA and Loyola, which are committed to neutrality in union matters, USC has taken a definite anti-union stand. Letters from Arnold Shafer, physical plant director, were sent to all voting employes on Dec. 7. requesting that they vote against the union, and the university made the area around the Custodial Services building at 943 W. 35th St. available for anti-union rallies.
It was at such a rally, held Moriday night, that Melendez and Diaz first clashed with the assistant supervisor, John Thomas.
He had been sitting at a table on which there was anti-union material and free coffee and cigars, Melendez told the Daily Trojan yesterday. When they appeared to look at the literature Thomas questioned them rudly, Melendez said, “grabbing my arm quite forcefully.” They were questioned by campus police and released.
Shafer said yesterday that they were handled roughly because they were distributing union literature. Melendez admitted that the two had some pro-union material in their possession at the time.
Diaz had a brief encounter with Thomas yesterday morning at the same building when he attempted to pose with a sign for a Daily Trojan photographer. Thomas, who thought he was planning to destroy the sign, pushed him angrily away from the building. Thomas also threatened to hit the photographer, for which he later apologized.
After tempers had cooled Melendez told the Daily Trojan that he believed the anti-union signs, literature and the rally were all engineered by the university to sway the votes of the employes.
“You can tell by the style of lettering that those signs were not done by Chicanos,” he said.
Both Shafer and Thomas denied that the university had anything to do with sponsoring the rally, other than in letting the “employees who are strongly opposed to the union” use the area.
“These employees had their own rally,” Shafer said. “They played, rallied and talked. They planned it. put up the signs, and had their own program. ”
“I had nothing to do with the rally,” Thomas said. “I was there only because the employees thought it would be good to have somebody from management there to tell them about the election. It was all approved by the Labor Relations Board.”
Melendez also complained about the large numbers of campus policemen on hand to keep union representatives from the campus.
“It’s a common practice in any union-management battle, to
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University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
VOL. LXII NO. 51
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER?, 1970
BYU game boycott pushed
By CATHEJEAN McGILLIN
The Black Students’ Union has gained the support of the ASSC in its attempt to have Friday night’s basketball game against Brigham Young University cancelled. It seems, however, that despite their joint effort the game will be played as scheduled.
Sam Hurst, ASSC president. Henry Blackburn, the chairman of the BSU and Tommy Brown, BSU minister of information, met with President John Hubbard late yesterday to discuss the possibility of cancelling the game.
According to Blackburn. Hubbard's main concern was how much embarrassment would come to the university should the game not be played. Blackburn added that the president said had he been informed earlier of the feelings of the BSU. it might have been possible to take action.
“All this school ever thinks about is money and how much it would be embarrassed,” Blackburn said. “USC has never really taken a lead in social con-
cerns. We want the game cancelled and all relations with BYU severed until it changes it policies toward blacks.”
Hubbard refused to comment, pending further investigation by the administration into the matter.
Hurst said that Hubbard stated USC. had a contract to fulfill and that it was too late to make a change. Hurst added that Hubbard was sure that no black athlete or white player who refused to play in Friday’s game would be reprimanded in the future.
“Athletics is an area of much concern to the BSU and to the ASSC.” Hurst said. “Very few athletes ever graduate and very few compile any academic record at all.
“We recognize as well as anyone that out timing in this matter is not the best,” he continued, “but timing is dictated by when we get the pulse and when we are able to act."
According to Hurst, USC has been asked to assert its position on a matter
w * *
of social concern and to follow the example set by other institutions.
“USC would not be the only school taking a social stand,” he said. “Stanford and San Jose have already taken action. We feel their actions represent a healthy trend and all we want USC to do is to follow sheepishly behind them.”
As an outgrowth of the demands made yesterday by the BSU that all athletic contests and other activities between USC and BYU be cancelled until BYU changes its policy toward blacks, the ASSC passed a resolution by a 12-1-1 vote stating:
“1. That the ASSC Executive Council calls upon the administration of this university to publicly sever irreparably any and all contacts with Brigham Young University, beginning with the basketball game scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11, 1970 . . . Should they fail to do this...
“2. That the ASSC Executive Council
asks the members of the Trojan basketball team to refuse to play against Brigham Young and thereby demonstrate that racism is intolerable to humanity.
“3. Be it further resolved that the ASSC Executive Council asks all USC students to attend the game and demonstrate their outrage and contempt for
racism.”
Blackburn said the BSU plans to contact black athletes requesting that they boycott Friday night's game. In addition, his group plans to contact community organizations.
When asked why the BSU did not file a complaint last year when the two schools were scheduled to compete he said:
“One reason is the BSU is under new leadership and second, we couldn't do anything about our team going away. The fact that now they are on home turf and BYU is coming here, is a basis for action.”
Photo bv Mike Parfit
CAMPUS POLICE CHECK IDENTITY OF CHICANO STUDENTS
Jesus Melendez. Rudy Diaz and Genaro Diaz show cards in front of propaganda-covered building
GOVERNANCE PROPOSAL
ASSC asks for revisions
By PETER WONG
The ASSC Executive Council unanimously approved several major suggested revisions for the proposal on university governance at its meeting yesterday.
Council members listened to recommendations prepared by a subcommittee under the chairmanship of Stan DiOrio. graduate representative.
DiOrio and his committee—Steve Goldfisher, Bill Hesse. Jim Lacy and Tom Levyn—had worked on the report for over a month.
The report will now go to the ad hoc committee on university governance, headed by Paul Hadley, dean of University College and the Summer Session. That group will work the suggestions into the final document before ratification.
Earlier, Hadley's group received the suggestions of the two other major groups—the University Senate, representing the faculty, and the Council of Deans.
DiOrio s committee recommended that student representation on the proposed University Council. the major new governing body in the Articles of Governance, be increased to seven members of the 15-member council. The faculty would then have five representatives and the deans three.
Under the original plan, each of the groups would have five representatives on the council.
“Since the decisions of this council would have far greater effect on students than on faculty and deans, it should be reasonable that students have more say on the council, " DiOrio said.
Also, the committee recommended that council members serve one-year terms, instead of the two-year overlapping terms in the original proposal.
Another major change would give the University Council a two-thirds majority override power over the veto of the president. Previously,
if the president rejected a council recommendation within 30 days, the council could do nothing about it.
“This change would give some real power to the council, for if it could only recommend policies and do nothing else, it would be useless,” DiOrio said.
Also, the subcommittee said the council should have broader powers in the conduct of its business:
“The University Council as the prime instrument of university governance shall have the power to make any recommendation necessary to fulfill its functions.”
A new University Court, which would have jurisdiction over 1) disputes concerning the governance structure, and 2) the rights of all members of the university community, would be created under the ASSC proposals.
“In the past we’ve had no real procedure for grievances if one large group, the student body for example, were hurt by a university policy,” DiOrio said. “The University Court would be an impartial group which would decide the case.”
The positions of chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary on university committees and the University Council would rotate among students, faculty and deans every four months.
“This provides training and leadership experience for all those involved,” DiOrio said. “The shifting of officers will certainly not hinder the effective operation of the committees since there will not be any net loss in experience of the committees.”
The ASSC proposals would still allow each group to negotiate with the president directly.
Also, one member of each group would sit at all sessions of the Board of Trustees as voting members and resource persons. Trustees’ meetings are now closed.
— University backs HI anti-union drive
By MIKE PARFIT
A pair of heated encounters between two Chicano students, a university employee and the campus police have stirred up controversy over a drive to unionize custodians and groundsmen.
The two students, who clashed with an assistant custodian supervisor both Monday night and Tuesday morning at the site of an antiunion demonstration, announced that a meeting will be held today to discuss the situation. The meeting, sponsored by MECHA, a campus Chicano organization, will take place at noon in the Student Activities Center.
The primary issue raised will be the policy of the university in actively campaigning against unionization while not allowing union representatives on-campus access to campus employees. The two students, Jesus Melendez, a third year law student and member of the national board of directors of La Raza National Law Students, and Genary Diaz, a co-chairman of MECHA, also indicated that the meeting would include discussion on tactics used by the university in preventing the union from entering the campus.
The union, Local 399 of the Service & Hosptial Employes Union, AFL-CIO. has been working to unionize the custodians and groundsmen several weeks. An election to determine whether or not it will win the right to represent the 250 employees will be held Friday from 5 to 7 a.m.
In contrast to several other area universities such as UCLA and Loyola, which are committed to neutrality in union matters, USC has taken a definite anti-union stand. Letters from Arnold Shafer, physical plant director, were sent to all voting employes on Dec. 7. requesting that they vote against the union, and the university made the area around the Custodial Services building at 943 W. 35th St. available for anti-union rallies.
It was at such a rally, held Moriday night, that Melendez and Diaz first clashed with the assistant supervisor, John Thomas.
He had been sitting at a table on which there was anti-union material and free coffee and cigars, Melendez told the Daily Trojan yesterday. When they appeared to look at the literature Thomas questioned them rudly, Melendez said, “grabbing my arm quite forcefully.” They were questioned by campus police and released.
Shafer said yesterday that they were handled roughly because they were distributing union literature. Melendez admitted that the two had some pro-union material in their possession at the time.
Diaz had a brief encounter with Thomas yesterday morning at the same building when he attempted to pose with a sign for a Daily Trojan photographer. Thomas, who thought he was planning to destroy the sign, pushed him angrily away from the building. Thomas also threatened to hit the photographer, for which he later apologized.
After tempers had cooled Melendez told the Daily Trojan that he believed the anti-union signs, literature and the rally were all engineered by the university to sway the votes of the employes.
“You can tell by the style of lettering that those signs were not done by Chicanos,” he said.
Both Shafer and Thomas denied that the university had anything to do with sponsoring the rally, other than in letting the “employees who are strongly opposed to the union” use the area.
“These employees had their own rally,” Shafer said. “They played, rallied and talked. They planned it. put up the signs, and had their own program. ”
“I had nothing to do with the rally,” Thomas said. “I was there only because the employees thought it would be good to have somebody from management there to tell them about the election. It was all approved by the Labor Relations Board.”
Melendez also complained about the large numbers of campus policemen on hand to keep union representatives from the campus.
“It’s a common practice in any union-management battle, to
(Continued on page 6)